After having breakfast and reading the newspaper, Sun Xu said goodbye to his pregnant wife Sun Mengshi. Then he took the long coat from Uncle Li and put it on, then put on the silk dome hat, and finally put on Put on a pair of black leather gloves.
After getting ready, he opened the door and went out. When he opened the door, the cold air from outside poured in, but Sun Xu, who was wearing thick clothes, did not feel cold.
In fact, this kind of weather is not too cold for Sun Xu. The winter in his hometown is even colder.
After leaving the door, there was a two-horse four-wheel carriage parked in front of the door. Uncle Li had already opened the door of the carriage one step ahead. After Sun Xu bent down and got into the car, Uncle Li closed the door and then walked to the front to drive.
Under the urging of Uncle Li, the two strong Fengzhou horses moved gently and pulled the four-wheeled carriage on the road briskly.
Sun Xu turned around and looked out of the glass window. His wife, Sun Mengshi, was waving to him gently in front of the large glass window in the hall.
He immediately waved his hand in response!
Soon, the carriage was on the asphalt road inside the community, because it was time to go to work, and he also saw the carriages of several neighbors driving out.
As one of the representative communities of high-end communities in Beicheng District, Dongqin Community has more than 200 residents who are high-income groups working in Beicheng District. They are mainly senior managers and core technical backbones of large enterprises, and there are also some They are the bosses of ordinary small and medium-sized enterprises.
You might say that they belong to the upper class, but in fact they have not reached that threshold... But you might say that they are ordinary middle class, and they are much better than the ordinary middle class.
Belong to the high-income class stuck between the rich and the middle class.
Their income allows them to live in a good single-family villa, hire a coachman to keep a private carriage, and their wives are generally full-time wives, well, full-time wives who do not have to do housework and take care of the children.
There are often several servants in the home, usually a maid who cooks and does chores, and a male servant who is a horseman, coachman, and gardener. If the income is higher, then a personal scout is often hired to follow the mistress. A maid by your side; and a male servant who will serve you next to your master.
Two to four servants, which was standard for many homes in their community!
Sun Xu's family now has two people, one is a horseman and coachman who takes care of the garden, and Uncle Li who also travels with Sun Xu on weekdays, and the other is a maid who cooks, cleans and serves Sun Meng's family.
The reason there are only two servants is mainly because Sun Xu and his wife only live with two people, and they are both young people. Although Sun Meng is pregnant, the child has not been born yet... unlike most other families, basically It is a big family with old people and children, and it needs more people to take care of it.
So Sun Xu and his wife only hired a maid of 18 years old for the time being. Uncle Li, who usually cooks, cleans and does some chores, follows Sun Xu when he goes out and drives...
However, as his wife's belly gradually grows, she will definitely have difficulty moving in the future, so he plans to hire an additional personal maid in the near future to take care of his pregnant wife at any time.
However, maids are not easy to find. After all, what he wants is a maid who can take care of pregnant women and will also need to take care of babies later. Not only is it difficult to find, but it is also not cheap.
The maids who can take care of children are not cheap... He had gone to a housekeeping company to inquire before, and the average monthly salary was more than five yuan.
If they are specialized in taking care of maternity and infants, a professional female nurse with a practicing certificate certified by the Home Economics Association is more expensive, with a direct asking price of more than ten yuan...almost three times the salary of an ordinary worker.
But Sun Xu feels that if you really wait for the child to be born, you still need to hire a professional nurse. Although it is very expensive, you don't need to hire such a professional nurse for a long time. Two or three months is about the same.
But in that case, the family expenses will be relatively large after the child is born in April next year.
By that time, the salary expenses for the servants alone will cost more than 20 yuan a month... This does not include food and drink for them.
According to the rules, servants generally have to reimburse their boss for food, accommodation and clothing... This food, accommodation and clothing is also a big expense. In the end, the expenses for servants alone cost more than twenty-five yuan.
Although his mother had written before and said that he could come to Songjiang from his hometown to help take care of the children without having to spend unreasonable money to hire someone.
But Sun Xu declined. The main reason was that his mother was not in good health to begin with. She was still completely recovered from a serious illness a few years ago. Her body and bones were already weak. In the past two years, he had been sending money home for his mother. Buy supplements to take care of your body.
He really couldn't bear to let his mother, who was already in poor health, go all the way to Songjiang to take care of her... Moreover, a mother who was in poor health couldn't take care of the mother and child.
How can you take care of women and children who are in confinement if you are not in good health?
Therefore, it is very necessary to hire a personal maid in the near future and hire a professional nurse in advance when giving birth.
And these expenses must also be planned in advance...
Normally, since his income is so high, he doesn't need to be so cautious, but he is always not confident about his future income expectations... He is always worried about losing his job.
Even in the middle of the year, he signed a new five-year guarantee contract with Anhua Textile Company. Compared with the old guarantee contract, his salary income has increased a lot, reaching the level of an annual salary of one thousand yuan, and there is also a lot of money. Other incentive bonuses.
But a guaranteed contract isn’t everything!
Although from a legal perspective, a security contract is a labor contract that provides a high degree of protection to employees because of its mandatory and highly restrictive nature... Once you sign this kind of contract, as long as you do not violate the provisions of the contract, even if the boss wants to If I want to fire you, I have to pay you the salary for the remaining contract period in one lump sum.
You don’t have to worry about your boss changing your position to do hard and dangerous physical work. This kind of security contract stipulates the scope of work and duties.
But once the boss is really shameless, he can still find some loopholes to get rid of this guarantee contract at the risk of losing the company's reputation and being fined a lot of money in lawsuits. There are also some bosses who want to get rid of this guarantee contract. Employees often adopt soft strategies, such as bullying you in terms of personality, letting colleagues isolate you, and arranging tasks that are part of your job but are actually disgusting... There are various tricks after thinking about it.
For example, Sun Xu had heard that in order to get rid of a senior technical backbone who had signed a guarantee contract, the boss of a textile factory directly arranged him into a new office. He was the only one in the huge office. The windows... don't arrange work, so you stay in this small office all day long doing nothing.
In the end, this technical boss couldn't stand it anymore, and he was not willing to waste the remaining few years of his contract by doing nothing here.
In the end, he took the initiative to resign and leave... Of course, he was a highly educated technical boss with a strong legal awareness, so he sued for compensation and publicized the old employer's harsh treatment of technical backbones and failure to keep promises.
Although the boss stood his ground and won the lawsuit legally, his reputation was tarnished. He will not be able to recruit senior technical backbones in the industry in the future... I heard that the boss has moved the factory to other provinces. , there is no other way, the negative reputation of treating technical backbones harshly, signing a guarantee contract and then regretting it has spread throughout the industry in Songjiang.
Seeing the boss's behavior, the few remaining technical backbones all looked for new jobs, and the boss couldn't find a new technical leader, so the factory was about to shut down...
If we don't leave, the factory will be doomed.
Therefore, in the Dachu Empire, the mandatory and highly restrictive security contract is a high-standard labor contract specifically for senior administrative talents and technical talents. Either you don't sign it, or if you sign it, you have to pay honestly. ...unless the business goes bankrupt.
However, even if the company goes bankrupt, employees' salaries will be among the highest priority for settlement during bankruptcy liquidation, and employees with guaranteed contracts can still receive the remaining full salary of the contract period from bankruptcy liquidation.
Therefore, a company rarely signs this kind of security contract with its employees. Generally, it will give this kind of contract only when it is really short of people and urgently needs the employee... If it goes further, it will basically give shares.
Sun Xu was able to sign this kind of guarantee contract purely because of the industry. There were too few professional and technical backbones in the new cotton yarn industry... and the market demand was extremely huge. All the surrounding companies were eyeing the Anhua Textile Company. Several technical backbones were waving their heads every day to poach employees, but Wang Liqing had no choice. In order to retain technical backbones like Sun Xu, he could only provide this kind of guarantee contract, which was very passive for the company.
So Sun Xu himself sometimes feels that he is a lucky person who has entered the new cotton yarn industry as soon as he came to Songjiang...
And this kind of luck is also the main reason why he is extremely uneasy about the future!
There are still three years left on his guaranteed contract... Even if there is no problem within three years, but the guaranteed contract ends after three years, can he still get such a high salary?
he does not know! Not even confident...
This is why he wants to pay off the house loan as soon as possible. He is worried that after three years when the contract ends, his income will drop significantly and he will not be able to repay the loan...
Fortunately, his job has been stable in the past year, and his own expenses are not large. He basically does not spend money lavishly outside. In terms of family expenses, although his wife Sun Mengshi spends small money more frequently, she spends less big money. .
Generally speaking, there were no major expenses in the past year. Apart from daily household expenses, he saved all his income to repay the loan.
According to the current situation, if everything goes well, he will almost be able to pay off the house loan completely by next year.
When the time comes, he will be debt-free and will no longer have to worry so much. Even if he loses his high-paying job at Anhua Textile Company, he will not have to worry too much. By then, he can rely on his technical skills to find a job as a machine repairman in other textile companies. It’s not a problem. At most, the income will be less.
If the debt is paid off and the industry continues to prosper, and I can truly establish a foothold in Anhua Textile Company, for example, I can be promoted to the position of deputy section chief of the Mechanical Maintenance Department, and truly become the core technical backbone of Anhua Textile Company, then He will consider improving the current living conditions and bringing the daily living conditions at home closer to those of other families in the community.
Although his wife didn't say it, Sun Xu had heard to some extent that after the couple moved into Dongqin Community, the wife's social life among the ladies in the community was not going well.
The main reason is that the daily living conditions of their home, such as furniture and furnishings, and even the number of servants, make it difficult for the wife to hold her head high in front of the mistresses of other families.
Last month, Sun Mengshi was invited to a small party at a home in Building 56. At the small party, more than a dozen women from the community discussed the topic of curtains and winter. What kind of curtains should be used better? Which curtains are made better? During the period, I also made an appointment to visit the new winter curtains in other homes...
Someone also asked Sun Meng's family what kind of winter curtains your family has changed. Can you go and take a look for reference... Sun Meng's family was very embarrassed because their family had no plans to change any winter curtains. They had always used them at home. They were all purple curtains that the original owner had installed when they renovated the house when they first bought it!
After coming back that day, Sun Mengshi told him about this, angrily: These curtains are good and I like them very much, why do they have to be changed?
There are actually many situations like this, and Sun Mengshi usually won't tell him these things, but he can see some of them.
He was helpless about this. Changing the curtains was just a small matter, but there were too many similar things.
In particular, some common living habits and chat topics of neighbors often require a certain economic level to support them. Until you reach that level of consumption, you don’t even know what they say.
Moreover, this level of consumption needs to be maintained for a long time to form a habitual living habit.
And he, Sun Xu, seems to be earning a lot now, but he has only been earning a high salary for a year or two. His accumulation is too meager and he cannot compare with his neighbors in terms of family wealth, so he cannot change too much.
They can only hope that after repaying the loan, their work will continue smoothly, so that their family's economic conditions will improve significantly.
After the economy improves, it will naturally lead to an improvement in living standards, or in other words, in line with the average living standard in Dongqin community.
As for now, it is still in the accumulation stage, so I have no choice but to endure it first!
He can't afford not to repay the loan and then spend all his monthly salary just to maintain a so-called decent and upper-class life.
The most important thing now is to study and work hard to maintain the current high income level, so after the carriage arrived at Anhua Textile Company in the city, Sun Xu threw himself at work.
First, Section Chief Wang of the Mechanical Maintenance Department and several team leaders held a simple morning meeting, which mainly focused on how to solve a malfunctioning steam engine.
Two days ago, a steam engine in the factory broke down. The problem was quite serious. There was a serious problem with the cylinder.
After inspection, it was found that the entire cylinder and the two core components of the piston are no longer usable... After all, it is an old machine that has been used for more than ten years. In the early years, the high-pressure steam engine was not too mature. It's not easy after more than ten years.
In fact, it can be repaired, but because it is an old machine, there is no cheap batch supply of spare parts on the market. You either have to spend money to customize the core parts from outside, or you can spend a higher price to order spare parts from the original factory... But no matter which one All are expensive. After all, it was not the small parts that were broken, but the cylinder block and piston that were broken together. These two things are basically the core parts of a steam engine.
Simply put, the cost of ordering these two core parts exceeds the residual value of such an old machine.
In other words, it would be cheaper to just go to the market and eliminate an old steam engine of the same model!
In response to this matter, after discussion in the morning meeting, the Mechanical Maintenance Department reached a consensus: this piece of crap is no longer worth repairing, so just take the opportunity to replace it with a new steam engine. After all, this old machine is too expensive to repair, and after all It's an old guy. It always has problems every day. Daily maintenance costs are already very high, and it also affects production.
Might as well get a new one, once and for all!
After discussing the matter, Section Chief Wang talked about the work arrangements, and then stood up and announced the adjournment of the meeting. Section Chief Wang took the documents and prepared to go to the company to co-organize the report on the replacement of the steam engine. Sun Xu left the conference room and took himself The three members of the team started working and carried out daily inspection and maintenance of the new cotton yarn production line that was running without stopping.
The new cotton yarn production line is very important to Anhua Textile Company, and there must be no problems. Therefore, daily inspection and maintenance are very important.
This is also Sun Xu's most important job in normal times: ensuring the stable operation of the new cotton yarn production line!
After taking his subordinates on a tour, there were no problems with the production lines in the several workshops he was responsible for, and then he went to the workshop next door that had not yet started work and started to get busy.
This is a newly built workshop, which is one of the continued expansion projects of Anhua Textile Company this year. New equipment is currently being installed and debugged.
Sun Xu is currently leading the team responsible for the installation and debugging of the production line in this workshop!
This is also an important reason why Sun Xu can earn an annual salary of thousands of dollars. At present, in Anhua Textile Company, apart from Section Chief Wang, he is the only one who can lead the team to install and debug the new cotton yarn production line in the entire workshop.
Although the installation and debugging of the production line will involve engineers from the equipment manufacturers, these equipment manufacturers are not the same family. The steam engine is from the same company, the traditional system is from the same company, the spinning machine is from the same company, and many other equipments also have their own suppliers, which requires their own mechanics to coordinate installation and commissioning.
Anhua Textile Company has not found suppliers that directly package and supply the entire production line. Such premiums are too high, and the production lines often follow the trend, making it difficult to meet the many detailed requirements of Anhua Textile Company, and it is also easy to cause problems. Process leaks.
Cotton yarn seems simple, and even the equipment used by everyone is similar, but the specific cotton yarn produced is very different. This is due to the technical differences of each cotton yarn factory.
After two years of long exploration, Anhua Textile Company has continuously adjusted its equipment and improved its processes. The quality of the new high-end cotton yarn it produces is very good, comparable to the new high-end cotton yarn produced by some large-scale textile companies with strong technology. , which contains a series of production processes with very high technical content.
If you want to produce this new type of high-end cotton yarn with your own special technology, you can't just rely on the so-called mainstream cotton yarn production lines that are all over the street. You also need your own mechanics to conduct in-depth debugging of the production line based on the detailed parameters of the product.
This is one of Sun Xu's main jobs.
On this day, the production lines in the several workshops he was responsible for had no problems and were running safely, so he asked several subordinates to take turns watching the production lines and paying attention to the status of the equipment, while he himself was in the new workshop , leading a team of equipment manufacturer engineers to install and debug the new production line.
This is a very energy-consuming and even physical task. Many equipments require him to install and debug by himself, which is very troublesome.
I was busy until noon. After having a meal in the management cafeteria in the factory, I took a brief nap in the cubicle lounge in the office and continued to work on the new workshop in the afternoon.
But when it was time to get off work, one of his subordinates came over in a panic and called him, saying that there was something wrong with the production line in workshop No. 5.
He went over to take a look and found that the production line was still running, but the quality of the cotton yarn produced had plummeted... After inspection, it was found that the workers' operations were in accordance with standards and there were no problems, and there were no problems with the raw materials.
He also personally checked the adjustment parameters of many equipment on the production line and found that everything was normal.
But when everything seemed normal, the cotton yarn produced turned into defective products... Sun Xu frowned and looked at the many equipment in front of him, and then ordered: "Stop the machine first and prepare for a comprehensive inspection!"
According to his expectations, if nothing unexpected happens, he will probably have to work overtime until very late today.
